on 9/10/06 2:06 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm amused by the new Ban Fiction! movement here
at FFL, and that the people who are calling for
restraint and censorship seem to be doing so to
protect their investment in even larger fictions.
Judy wants to ban a slightly fictional TV series
because she's afraid it would expose the larger
fiction that American voters are intelligent enough
to tell fact from fiction and then vote for the fact.
Ken Woods wants "rules" to keep people from being
"aloud" to write fiction that he feels is disrespect-
ful to Maharishi. The fiction that *he* is trying to
protect is that anyone outside a few fanatics in the
TM movement still respects Maharishi.
And Sparaig is against fictional practical jokes
(in this case a joke that *HE* made up, and that
wasn't even part of the conversation before he
inserted it there) because he's convinced that they
could cause heart attacks. The fiction that he's
trying to protect (like Ken Woods, who he is trying
to support without appearing to do so) is that some
things are too serious to be laughed at.
Go figure.
I just think it's fascinating that two of the people
who have spent the most time of any FFL posters in
history defending the numerous fictions of the TM
movement and repeating them for years as if they
were true are now ragging on fiction.
And the third protester, who obviously lives in a
*completely* fictional universe, is so offended at
someone writing a fictional parody of Maharishi that
he believes the universe *itself* is going to inter-
cede and punish the "bad people writing such evil
words."
The funny thing is that all three of these people
may actually be onto something.
No, not that fiction needs to be banned or controlled,
but that it's become unnecessary.
When you have people acting like this and claiming
that *they* represent reality, fiction has definitely
become superfluous.
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